Posted on 08/10/2016 12:48:22 PM PDT by AuntB
BROOKINGS, Ore. - Law enforcement put nearly 12,000 mature marijuana plants through a wood chipper Monday while dismantling a grow operation found in a remote corner of Curry County near the California border, Sheriff John Ward said.
A helicopter surveyed the area from the air, and an armed ground team entered the grow first to make sure the area was safe, Ward said.
They found a camouflaged living structure and evidence of weapons and chemicals.
No one was present as law enforcement moved in.
"It was obvious that whoever was tending to the marijuana had left prior to the eradication team arrival," according to Ward.
The 11,992 plants were found on federal forestland. The grow is believed to belong to an organized criminal cartel, the sheriff said.
A helicopter spotted the grow last week, not far from another grow just across the California border, Ward said.
A helicopter dropped an eradication team in the area to cut down the plants. The plants were hauled back out by helicopter and put through a wood chipper, Ward said.
The eradication involved personnel from the Del Norte, Calif., Sheriff’s Office, Oregon State Police, National Parks, Yurok Police, State Parks, U.S. Forest Service, CALMMET and the Curry County Sheriff’s Office.
These irradication operations are taking all the resources of these small sheriff's departments. They don't have the time to even investigate rural crime any longer. We are on our own.
Cue Blutarski video.
All these marijuana grows in our forests in that region take an incredible amount of water for the plants to grow. The growers use irrigation line to funnel water from all the springs, which they dam up, to the grow sites, sometimes miles away. It has a devastating effect on the forest as well as being a major contributor to the drying up of municipal and agricultural water supplies that rely upon reservoirs up in the forests.
Those wood chippers are going to need professional cleaning
to get all that nasty resin out of them.
“All these marijuana grows in our forests in that region take an incredible amount of water for the plants to grow. The growers use irrigation line to funnel water from all the springs, which they dam up, to the grow sites, sometimes miles away. It has a devastating effect on the forest as well as being a major contributor to the drying up of municipal and agricultural water supplies that rely upon reservoirs up in the forests”
So true! And the chemicals they use is startling. I did a photo series of articles about these grows. The photos were given to me by a local sheriff. So many of our forest fires have started at these grows. Illegal aliens are EXPENSIVE! A couple were found working the pot farms who had legit USA ‘agriculture’ visas!
Lots of photos here of the water lines, camps, guns, CANDLES... http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=800+miles
Especially after 12k plants, that must have stunk. But better than spraying it with Roundup and poisoning the soil.
Tipped off.
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“It was obvious that whoever was tending to the marijuana had left prior to the eradication team arrival,”
Tipped off. “
They usually vacate as soon as they see a helicopter flying over. They wait a while, then go back.
More cartel pot farm stories here:
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=marijuana+farm
Local cops need bass boats, too...
Not really, just have the new guy run a couple bushels of poison oak through them.
But not before Malaria got her hands on it, or so the I've heard.
Better yet, run a bunch of willow through the chippers
and you’d have aspirin infused hashish. Bayer Hash!
“BayerHash”
LOL
Kills the pain from the inside out and the outside in!
Seriously though, I hate the fact that foreign crime syndicates are destroying our forests. Especially after being harassed for staying in a backwoods campsite longer than their two week maximum.
Not as hard to clean as the Fargo wood chipper.
In both cases it makes rich compost.
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